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NIST Still Struggling to Clear Vulnerability Submissions Backlog in NVD

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NIST Still Struggling to Clear Vulnerability Submissions Backlog in NVD 2025-03-24 at 18:21 By Ryan Naraine The effects of the backlog is already being felt in vulnerability management circles where NVD data promises an enriched source of truth. The post NIST Still Struggling to Clear Vulnerability Submissions Backlog in NVD appeared first on SecurityWeek. This […]

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Dependency-Check: Open-source Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tool

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Dependency-Check: Open-source Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tool 2025-03-19 at 07:47 By Help Net Security Dependency-Check is an open-source Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tool to identify publicly disclosed vulnerabilities within a project’s dependencies. The tool analyzes dependencies for Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) identifiers. When a match is found, the tool generates a report with links to

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MITRE Caldera RCE vulnerability with public PoC fixed, patch ASAP! (CVE-2025–27364)

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MITRE Caldera RCE vulnerability with public PoC fixed, patch ASAP! (CVE-2025–27364) 2025-02-28 at 17:03 By Zeljka Zorz Users of the MITRE Caldera cyber security platform have been urged to plug a critical hole (CVE-2025–27364) that may allow unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution. About MITRE Caldera MITRE Caldera is a platform built on the

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5,000+ SonicWall firewalls still open to attack (CVE-2024-53704)

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5,000+ SonicWall firewalls still open to attack (CVE-2024-53704) 2025-01-27 at 17:20 By Zeljka Zorz 5,000+ SonicWall firewalls are still vulnerable to attack via a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2024-53704) that, according to SonicWall, should be considered “at imminent risk of exploitation”. The warning came last week from Bishop Fox researchers, after they successfully exploited the vulnerability on

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New UEFI Secure Boot bypass vulnerability discovered (CVE-2024-7344)

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New UEFI Secure Boot bypass vulnerability discovered (CVE-2024-7344) 2025-01-16 at 12:03 By Help Net Security ESET researchers have identified a vulnerability (CVE-2024-7344) impacting most UEFI-based systems, which allows attackers to bypass UEFI Secure Boot. The issue was found in a UEFI application signed with Microsoft’s “Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011” third-party certificate. Exploiting this vulnerability

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BeyondTrust fixes critical vulnerability in remote access, support solutions (CVE-2024-12356)

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BeyondTrust fixes critical vulnerability in remote access, support solutions (CVE-2024-12356) 2024-12-18 at 11:48 By Zeljka Zorz BeyondTrust has fixed an unauthenticated command injection vulnerability (CVE-2024-12356) in its Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) products that may allow remote code execution, and is urging organizations with on-premise installations to test the patch and implement

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BadRAM: $10 hack unlocks AMD encrypted memory

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BadRAM: $10 hack unlocks AMD encrypted memory 2024-12-11 at 13:16 By Mirko Zorz Cybersecurity researchers have identified a vulnerability (CVE-2024-21944, aka BadRAM) affecting ADM processors that can be triggered by rogue memory modules to unlock the chips’ encrypted memory. The SPD chip can be modified using an off-the-shelf microcontroller. The researchers used a Raspberry Pi

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Microsoft fixes exploited zero-day (CVE-2024-49138)

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Microsoft fixes exploited zero-day (CVE-2024-49138) 2024-12-10 at 23:04 By Zeljka Zorz On December 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft resolved 71 vulnerabilities in a variety of its products, including a zero-day (CVE-2024-49138) that’s been exploited by attackers in the wild to execute code with higher privileges. CVE-2024-49138 exploited by attackers CVE-2024-49138 stems from a heap-based buffer overflow

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Attackers actively exploiting flaw(s) in Cleo file transfer software (CVE-2024-50623)

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Attackers actively exploiting flaw(s) in Cleo file transfer software (CVE-2024-50623) 2024-12-10 at 15:35 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers are exploiting a vulnerability (CVE-2024-50623) in file transfer software by Cleo – LexiCo, VLTransfer, and Harmony – to gain access to organizations’ systems, Huntress researchers warned on Monday. “We’ve discovered at least 10 businesses whose Cleo servers were

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Mitel MiCollab zero-day and PoC exploit unveiled

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Mitel MiCollab zero-day and PoC exploit unveiled 2024-12-05 at 16:32 By Zeljka Zorz A zero-day vulnerability in the Mitel MiCollab enterprise collaboration suite can be exploited to read files containing sensitive data, watchTowr researcher Sonny Macdonald has disclosed, and followed up by releasing a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that chains together this zero-day file read vulnerability

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PoC exploit for critical WhatsUp Gold RCE vulnerability released (CVE-2024-8785)

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PoC exploit for critical WhatsUp Gold RCE vulnerability released (CVE-2024-8785) 2024-12-04 at 13:38 By Zeljka Zorz Researchers have published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for CVE-2024-8785, a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting Progress WhatsUp Gold, a popular network monitoring solution for enterprises. CVE-2024-8785 and the PoC exploit CVE-2024-8785 stems from the incorrect use of a

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Veeam plugs serious holes in Service Provider Console (CVE-2024-42448, CVE-2024-42449)

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Veeam plugs serious holes in Service Provider Console (CVE-2024-42448, CVE-2024-42449) 2024-12-03 at 19:48 By Zeljka Zorz Veeam has fixed two vulnerabilities in Veeam Service Provider Console (VSPC), one of which (CVE-2024-42448) may allow remote attackers to achieve code exection on the VSPC server machine. The vulnerabilities Veeam Service Provider Console is a cloud-enabled platform that

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Inside the 2024 CWE Top 25: Trends, surprises, and persistent challenges

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Inside the 2024 CWE Top 25: Trends, surprises, and persistent challenges 2024-12-02 at 07:12 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Alec Summers, Project Leader for the CVE Program at MITRE, shares his insights on the 2024 CWE top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses. He discusses the impact of the new methodology that

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Researchers reveal exploitable flaws in corporate VPN clients

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Researchers reveal exploitable flaws in corporate VPN clients 2024-11-26 at 17:33 By Zeljka Zorz Researchers have discovered vulnerabilities in the update process of Palo Alto Networks (CVE-2024-5921) and SonicWall (CVE-2024-29014) corporate VPN clients that could be exploited to remotely execute code on users’ devices. CVE-2024-5921 CVE-2024-5921 affects various versions of Palo Alto’s GlobalProtect App on

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2,000 Palo Alto Networks devices compromised in latest attacks

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2,000 Palo Alto Networks devices compromised in latest attacks 2024-11-21 at 13:27 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers have compromised around 2,000 Palo Alto Networks firewalls by leveraging the two recently patched zero-days (CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474), Shadowserver Foundation’s internet-wide scanning has revealed. Compromised devices are predominantly located in the US and India, the nonprofit says. Manual and

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CWE top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses

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CWE top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses 2024-11-21 at 07:33 By Help Net Security The CWE list of the 25 most dangerous software weaknesses demonstrates the currently most common and impactful software flaws. Identifying the root causes of these vulnerabilities provides insights to shape investments, policies, and practices that proactively prevent their occurrence. The CWE

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Attackers are exploiting 2 zero-days in Palo Alto Networks firewalls (CVE-2024-0012, CVE-2024-9474)

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Attackers are exploiting 2 zero-days in Palo Alto Networks firewalls (CVE-2024-0012, CVE-2024-9474) 2024-11-18 at 17:33 By Zeljka Zorz Palo Alto Networks has released fixes for two vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474) in its next-generation firewalls that have been exploited by attackers as zero-days. About the vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-0012, CVE-2024-9474) CVE-2024-0012 stems from missing authentication for a critical

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NIST is chipping away at NVD backlog

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NIST is chipping away at NVD backlog 2024-11-14 at 16:33 By Zeljka Zorz The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is clearing the backlog of unprocessed CVE-numbered vulnerabilities in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), but has admitted that their initial estimate of when they would finish the job was “optimistic”. About the NVD The

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How a Windows zero-day was exploited in the wild for months (CVE-2024-43451)

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How a Windows zero-day was exploited in the wild for months (CVE-2024-43451) 2024-11-14 at 12:02 By Zeljka Zorz CVE-2024-43451, a Windows zero-day vulnerability for which Microsoft released a fix on November 2024 Patch Tuesday, has been exploited since at least April 2024, ClearSky researchers have revealed. About the vulnerability CVE-2024-43451 affects all supported Windows versions

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Microsoft fixes actively exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49039)

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Microsoft fixes actively exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49039) 2024-11-12 at 23:03 By Zeljka Zorz November 2024 Patch Tuesday is here, and Microsoft has dropped fixes for 89 new security issues in its various products, two of which – CVE-2024-43451 and CVE-2024-49039 – are actively exploited by attackers. The exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49039) CVE-2024-43451 is yet another

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